Well, I'm very excited about this interview. It's with someone who I've known for, I don't know,

maybe four decades now, Ariel Ford, who has been a premier influential figure in the field

of higher consciousness, and specifically, issues having to do with relationships, finding your

soulmate and all of that stuff,

as well as spirituality.

Ariel has a book that's coming out, or maybe by the time you see this, it is out, called

The Love Thief.

And as her friend and her colleague, I am so proud of her because this book really goes there about relationships and it really goes

there about spirituality and also the relationship between the two. So I'm very excited to talk to

Ariel and I'm excited that you and obviously so many others are going to find out about this book,

there's a whole lot there. So, hi, Ariel.

Welcome.

Thank you, Marian.

I'm so excited to have this conversation.

Me too.

I'm excited.

The book starts with a very American scene.

Woman meets man.

It's everything she ever hoped for, hormonally, physically, all of her dreams, and he turns out to be a jerk.

Pretty common in a way. And, of course, this could go both ways. Men meet women who disappoint them the same way. I'm not saying they don't. And so it certainly goes into

a relationship pattern that often ends with the toxic narcissist and so forth. Then when all of

that blows up, she ends up to go to, going to India, where she finds herself.

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